Reality

Politics & Social Sciences

Weiss, PAUL

Philosophy

Southern Illinois Univ Pr

In a wide-ranging study of unusual interest, Paul Weiss, Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, applies the principles and methods of philosophy to athletics. Every culture, he notes, has games of some kind; few activities seem to interest both children and young men as much as sports do; and few attract so many spectators, rich and poor. Yet none of the great philosophers, claiming to take all knowledge and being as their province, have made more than a passing reference to sport, in part, Professor Weiss suggests, because they thought that what pleased the vulgar was not worth sustained study by the leisured.
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This seminal book breaks new ground and explores new paths: psychological and sociological forms of human behavior exhibited in games; the physiology of athletics, and the efforts of training and conditioning; and the motivation of athletics—the rhythm and aims of contests and games, and the meaning of team play. More importantly, however, Professor Weissâ€™s unique contributions lie in his discussions of the distinct contributions that sport makes to civilization.
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Professor Weiss discusses at length such topics as the Olympic Games and men and women as amateur and proÂfessional athletes—and their sacrifices, defeats, and humiliaÂtions. And he delineates the stages the athlete must go through in his progress toward self-completion.

Sport; a philosophic inquiry

Southern Illinois University Press

Book jacket/back: 'Being and Other Realities,' by our greatest living metaphysician, pushes Paul Weiss's philosophy to new subtlety. It moves on two fronts. On one, it further refines the categorial scheme Weiss has been developing over 50 years. On the other, it is a shining example of radical questioning and exploration. This is an important book, especially for philosophers like myself, who believe being is not another reality." --Robert C. Neville, Boston University, Author of Normative Cultures and The Truth of Broken Symbols

Being and Other Realities

Open Court

Book jacket/back: 'Being and Other Realities,' by our greatest living metaphysician, pushes Paul Weiss's philosophy to new subtlety. It moves on two fronts. On one, it further refines the categorial scheme Weiss has been developing over 50 years. On the other, it is a shining example of radical questioning and exploration. This is an important book, especially for philosophers like myself, who believe being is not another reality." --Robert C. Neville, Boston University, Author of Normative Cultures and The Truth of Broken Symbols

Born in 1901, Paul Weiss has made major contributions to several branches of philosophy, as well as to teaching and scholarly publishing. Alfred North Whitehead remarked: "The danger of philosophical teaching is that it may become dead-alive, but in Paul Weiss's presence that is impossible". Weiss is widely believed to be America's greatest living speculative metaphysician, but he has also made notable philosophical contributions to the discussion of sports, the arts, religion, logic, and politics. Professor Weiss has been highly productive: his Being and Other Realities (1995) was hailed as one of his most exciting books, and as this volume goes to press he is hard at work on yet another major treatise.

The Philosophy of Paul Weiss, Volume 23 (Library of Living Philosophers)

Hahn, Lewis Edwin

This self-contained treatise, originally published in 1947 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, examines fundamental features of nature in order to lay the groundwork for providing a solution to the major problems of ethics. The guiding thread of this examination is the idea of freedom. The acknowledgement that this universal freedom, which illustrates the integration of man and his problems in the rest of nature, demonstrates how nature provides a place for man, the being who is at once natural and responsible.

Nature and Man

Reference

University Press of America

Defining an "emphatic" as an intrusion that alters the import of what it intrudes on, Weiss sets the stage for an exquisitely systematic, speculative study of the major themes confronting modern metaphysics. The idea of an emphatic has its roots in Weiss's long-developed pluralistic ontology, with special focus on what we experience as an "emphasis." The most obvious examples are grammatical devices such as changed pitch in speech or exclamation and question marks in writing. Weiss also analyzes emphatics in etiquette, social status, nature, art, conventional behavior, encyclopedias, psychiatry, and religion.
Brilliant in every respect, Emphatics rewrites Weiss's systematic ontology in new terms. Not only are the lineaments of the system reexamined, but this book floods the reader with new perspectives and insights on relationship, signs, truth, particularity, space-time causality, education, mind-body issues, Being and other ultimate philosophical categories, and good and evil.
Weiss engages the various objections to his position in a series of question-and-answer epilogues at the end of each chapter that allow the reader to follow step-by-step a great philosophical mind at work. He takes his critics seriously, grapples with their objections, and answers them honestly. His discourse creatively revisits age-old questions and in reimagining new answers establishes the continuing relevance of philosophy as an academic discipline.

Emphatics (Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy)

Vanderbilt University Press

Philosophy in Process: Vol. 8 (Suny Philosophy)

Philosophy in Process, Volume 8, continues the publication of the working journals, the intellectual diary of one of the greatest modern metaphysicians. It presents the unique opportunity to experience him at work, thinking critically about his past writings and breaking ground in the creation of new works.

Philosophy in Process

State Univ of New York Pr

Philosophy in Process, Volume 7, Part II continues the publication of the working journals, the intellectual diary of one of the greatest modern metaphysicians. It represents the unique opportunity to experience him at work, thinking critically about his past writings and breaking ground in the creation of new works.

Philosophy in Process, Vol. 7, Part 2 (Suny Series in Philosophy)

Toward a Perfected State (S U N Y SERIES IN SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY)

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Reality

Sport; a philosophic inquiry

Being and Other Realities

Being and Other Realities

The Philosophy of Paul Weiss, Volume 23 (Library of Living Philosophers)

Nature and Man

Emphatics (Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy)

Philosophy in Process

Philosophy in Process, Vol. 7, Part 2 (Suny Series in Philosophy)

Toward a Perfected State (S U N Y SERIES IN SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY)